“But this hard-and-fast mythology [the Newtonian worldview] is now itself breaking in pieces. Newton’s impenetrable particles have exploded, and in the realm of subatomic physics that is opening to the mind’s eye—beyond reach of direct scrutiny and to be known only by way of observed dynamic effects—the entire universe appears (to quote one recent interpreter) as a dynamic web of inseparable energy patterns that always includes the observer in an essential way. This is to say that in what we think we know of the interior of the atom, as well as of the exploding stars in millions of spinning galaxies throughout an expanding space that is no longer, as in Newton’s view, “always similar and immovable,” the old notion of a once-upon-a-time First Cause has given way to something more like an immanent ground of being, transcendent of conceptualization, which is in a continuous act of creation now.” Joseph Campbell, The Historical Atlas of World Mythology (digital edition) IA - Prologue
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:56:19 +0000
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